Alvechurch lost 1-0 at home to Kettering Town on Tuesday night and currently sit in 11th place, with 47 points from 34 league games. It was their first home defeat of 2025.

Leiston won 2-1 against Alvechurch in mid-November last year in Suffolk. Fraser Alexander and Jamar Loza scored for the Blues while R.Batchelor netted for the away side.

Seb Dunbar will miss the game this weekend as he serves a one game suspension after being sent off for handling the ball on the line last Saturday against Barwell. Everyone else fromTuesday is expected the be fit for the game and defender Oliver Yun could return to action.

PREVIOUS MEETINGS AT ALVECHURCH

THE Blues first-ever trip to Alvechurch came in March 2019 when the side lost 2-1 on a Tuesday evening. Matt Blake had put Leiston ahead in the first half.

The following season in February 2020, the sides drew 0-0, just before the outbreak of Covid.

The teams didn’t meet again until October 2021, when Alvechurch won 2-0. In September 2022, goals from Will Davies (2) and Wyatt Hill looked like giving the Blues the three points but two late goals from ‘The Church’ helped Alvechurch to a 3-3 draw.

Last season, Leiston won 2-0 in late November 2023. Jack Manly and Jamar Loza scored both Leiston goals in the first period.

ALVECHURCH FUN FACTS

ACCORDING to the the last Census in 2021, just over 3,000 people live in Alvechurch.

The football club reached the Third Round of the FA Cup in the 1973-1974 season, losing 4-2 to Bradford City.

Alan Smith, who played for Leicester City and Arsenal, started his career at Alvechurch. The ex-striker nearly made Sir Bobby Robson’s squad in the 1990 World Cup but just missed out. Smith scored the winner for Arsenal in the Cup Winners’ Cup Final in 1994.

Alvechurch’s record crowd is 13,500 for an FA Amateur Cup quarter-final in the 1964-1965 season.

Godfrey Baseley, the man who created the iconic Radio 4 soap The Archers, was born in Alvechurch.

Property in Alvechurch is priced well above the national average, with the average house price standing at £504,000. Semi-detached houses go for £391,000 and terrace properties can fetch £295,000.

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ALVECHURCH: - LLWWL
BLUES: - DLWLL

COMING UP FOR THE BLUES

LEISTON are back on home soil for their final game in March next weekend (Sat 29th March) when Bedford Town visit. Leiston host Banbury United the following Saturday (5th April) before the Blues play Felixstowe & Walton United in the Endeavour Automotive Suffolk Premier Cup Final at Needham Market FC on Wednesday 9th April.

MATCH INFORMATION
Alvechurch v Blues
Southern League Central Premier Division
Saturday, March 22, 3pm ko
Lye Meadow Ground, Redditch Road, Alvechurch, Birmingham, B48 7RS
Tel: - 0121 445 2929.

Admission Prices :- Adults £12 (£10 online), Concessions (over 65’s) £10 (£8 online), Students (with ID) and 13-17 year olds £7 (£5 online), U13’s free with a paying adult.

Game 36/42.